{"id":739,"date":"2007-11-22T22:57:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T02:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2007\/11\/22\/holiday-giving-one-laptop-per-chil"},"modified":"2007-11-22T22:57:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T02:57:38","slug":"holiday-giving-one-laptop-per-child-and-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2007\/11\/22\/holiday-giving-one-laptop-per-child-and-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday giving : One Laptop per Child and Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In moments of respite, I have enjoyed the influx of new interest in <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\">OLPC<\/a> from communities of all sorts this month as our <a href=\"http:\/\/xogiving.org\">Give 1 Get 1<\/a> program has <strong>rolled out<\/strong>.\u00a0 The interest has grown steadily over the past 10 days, from individuals, families, schools and larger groups; and the program is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/google\/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20071122005019&amp;newsLang=en\">continuing<\/a> through the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>I will try to capture some of the specific ideas and hopes of contributing groups next month, since what they want most of all is to make a difference and to find others doing the same; and since not everyone is <strong>keen <\/strong>on writing up their giving and mentoring ideas on a <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\">publicly-editable website<\/a>&#8230; If you have questions of your own, or posts to share, you are welcome to include them here or <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/FAQ\">there<\/a>.\u00a0 (If you are keen on posting here anything about the long now we are living, and missed my post from years back explaining how to do that, <strong>let me know<\/strong> and I can post for you or get you an account.)<\/p>\n<p>SJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In moments of respite, I have enjoyed the influx of new interest in OLPC from communities of all sorts this month as our Give 1 Get 1 program has rolled out.\u00a0 The interest has grown steadily over the past 10 days, from individuals, families, schools and larger groups; and the program is now continuing through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-sj"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}